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10-letter words containing u, n, r, e, a, l

  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
  • quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
  • quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
  • ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
  • re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
  • refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • reluctance — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
  • reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • returnable — that may be returned: returnable merchandise.
  • roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
  • rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • run a mile — If you say that someone would run a mile when faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it.
  • rural dean — a cleric ranking just below an archdeacon, in charge of an archdeaconry.
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • subcentral — near or almost to the center.
  • subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.
  • substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
  • sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
  • superclean — exceptionally clean
  • superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.
  • superplane — an extremely large or fast aeroplane
  • supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • suprarenal — situated above or on the kidney.
  • sutherlandEarl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
  • tentacular — Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
  • tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
  • tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
  • transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • tyrannulet — any of numerous flycatchers of tropical America belonging to several genera and having in common chiefly their small size.
  • uberlandia — a city in E Brazil.
  • ulcerating — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
  • ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
  • ultraclean — extremely clean, especially free of germs: an ultraclean laboratory.
  • ultradense — having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
  • un-neutral — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
  • un-secular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
  • unaltering — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
  • unarguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
  • unbearable — not bearable; unendurable; intolerable.
  • unbribable — not able to be bribed
  • unburnable — not able to be burned; not burnable
  • uncerebral — not cerebral or intellectual; not involving much deep thinking
  • unclerical — not clerical; not characteristic of or appropriate for a member of the clergy
  • uncurbable — unable to be restrained
  • undeclared — publicly avowed or professed; self-confessed: a declared liberal.
  • under sail — If you cross the sea under sail, you cross it in a ship that has sails rather than an engine.
  • under seal — If a document is under seal, it is in a sealed envelope and cannot be looked at, for example because it is private.
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